Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cuba, to be sure, is no U. S. colony; but in the days following the Spanish War it was virtually on a colonial basis...
False Weight? Although crimination and recrimination moved hot and quick last week, between U. S. and British delegates, via the press, no charge made was uglier than this: that the British Admiralty systematically lists its war boats at about five-sixths of their real tonnage, according to U. S. measurements...
...replied Earl Selborne, a director of Lloyd's Bank: "By far the most potent reason why many of the noble Lords do not attend the House is they can no longer afford to come to London very often. They gave all they had to the country during the War and they are now suffering the burden of taxation...
...France have scarcely produced two things more remarkable than a certain document and the ship on which it was en route last week to Manhattan. The document proposed in a few explicit sentences that the U. S. and France pledge themselves never to go to war...
Just 14 months ago (TIME, April 12, 1926), Feng Yu-hsiang was driven from Peking by the great Manchurian War Lord Chang Tso-lin, who is still supreme there. Marshal Feng retreated into Mongolia, consolidated his forces there, then hurried to Moscow where he allegedly obtained enormous grants of gold, supplies, arms, ammunition. Therefore it was pretty to see last week, how Marshal Feng managed to convey the impression that he is not a Communist, yet carefully did not disavow or antagonize the Soviet Government...